Women in the Holocaut
A comprehensive study of women's lives during the Holocaust and how gender often operated as a crucial signifier for survival, with many pregnant women, women with young children, and those deemed unfit for hard labour being sent straight to the gas chambers; challenging the overlooking and oversimplification of the role of gender in the Holocaust.
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Women in the Holocaust offers a comprehensive study of women's lives during the Holocaust. The role of gender in shaping the experience of the Holocaust has all too often been overlooked, over simplified, or even denied by scholars, and the result has been that the particularity of women's Holocaust experiences remains largely unexplored and increasingly hard to uncover. Zoë Waxman seeks to challenge this, contending that the study of gender will open up the nature of experience and thus challenge modern understandings of the Holocaust itself.
